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Police checking out Hoffa tip in Detroit suburb
DETROIT (AP) — Investigators will take soil samples from the ground beneath a suburban Detroit driveway after a man told police he believes he witnessed the burial of missing Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa about 35 years ago, police said Wednesday.…
Assad’s forces overrun Damascus suburb, kill 20
AMMAN (Reuters) – Syrian soldiers backed by tanks entered the Damascus suburb of Mouadamiya on Tuesday, killing at least 20 young men and burning shops and houses before gradually withdrawing from the town, residents and opposition activists said.
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Syria helicopters strike Damascus suburb; diplomacy stalled
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syrian attack helicopters bombarded a suburb of Damascus on Monday and Turkey said it had scrambled warplanes near the border in the north, as a 16-month conflict entered a more violent phase and diplomacy appeared to have…
Deadly bomb attack hits Damascus suburb
Dozens killed in violence across Syria, as car bombs explode in Damascus and Idlib, activists and state media report.
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Syria: Car bomb explodes in Damascus suburb
BEIRUT (AP) — Syria’s state-run news agency says a car bomb has exploded in a suburb of the capital Damascus, wounding at least two people.
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Activists: Syrian troops attack Damascus suburb
BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian troops stormed and shelled districts in a suburb of the capital Damascus Sunday, activists said, a day after the Security Council voted to expand the number of U.N. truce monitors to 300 members in hopes of…
Syrian troops attack Damascus suburb
BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian troops launched a fierce assault on a Damascus suburb Thursday with activists describing it as one of the most violent attacks since the year-old uprising began.
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Street battle in Damascus suburb
Syrian security forces fought a running street battle with opposition fighters on Monday, in the wake of deadly bombings in the country’s two biggest cities
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Syrian army ‘regains Damascus suburb’
Defectors and anti-government fighters withdraw from restive Al-Ghouta, activists say, after two days of heavy clashes.
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Activists: Syrian intelligence base attacked
Army defectors reported to have fired rockets at air force intelligence complex in Damascus suburb of Harasta.
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Could model airplanes become a terrorist weapon?
BOSTON (AP) — Model airplanes are suddenly on the public’s radar as potential terrorist weapons. A 26-year-old man from a Boston suburb was arrested Wednesday and accused of plotting to attack the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol with remote-controlled model…
Could model airplanes become a terrorist weapon?
BOSTON (AP) — Model airplanes are suddenly on the public’s radar as potential terrorist weapons. A 26-year-old man from a Boston suburb was arrested Wednesday and accused of plotting to attack the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol with remote-controlled model…